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How Allied Solutions Built a UX Team That Earned Influence

"How are we going to earn trust and gain influence throughout the organization so that we can help solve some of Allied's biggest digital problems?" That was the real question Ben Hewett's team had to answer, not the one they expected. When Allied Solutions started building its UX practice in

If AI Can Build Products, What Are The Humans For?

AI can now write code, generate prototypes and ship functional products at a speed that would have seemed unrealistic even a year ago. But faster output does not answer the harder question: should this product exist at all? In his UXDX talk, Rory Madden, Founder of UXDX, explored where AI

Designing for Agent Experience: Why AI Is Collapsing UX and DX

A lot of product development friction hides in plain sight. Someone has an idea, but before they can test it, they have to understand the tooling. They need to know where the work lives, how the deployment process works, what an error message means, who owns the system, and which

Building the Next Generation of Software

AI does not just add a new feature to software but it changes what software is, how it is built and how fast teams are expected to move. In his talk at UXDX, Des Traynor, Co-Founder of Fin, shared the story of how Intercom rebuilt itself around AI, became Fin,

How Pinterest Builds Visual Experiences That Connect

AI can generate endless answers, but inspiration is not the same as connection. In her talk at UXDX, Larkin Brown, Sr. Director Product Research at Pinterest, showed how years of human-centred research are being woven into AI-powered product experiences. Her message was clear: the future of visual discovery will not

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